New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-13

The first man from Illinois to toast Grover
Cleveland as the next President OF tile on''
states has been discovered by THE Chicago Mail"
II is such feats of journalism rs this that Diho
the fourth estate 10 the popular heart with hooks
of steel Does The Mail' propose to give the
man n banquet? Then let plates be laid for 100
or else some of him will be left out in the cold.
The Administration journals are having very
bilarious time over Secretary Whtneys refusal
TO sanction the repairing of the Palos, useiui
if not very warlike light draught steamer en-
ploycd in Asatic waters. The old-ume art'c'es
about the policy of maintaining navy 1or coeViy
repairs and corruption funds, ana the ioly VI
trying TO keep the rotting old hulks" afioat' even
when there are no other ships take their places,
! are reappearing on all sides. With the Democratic
press the silly season for writing on naval
matters lasts through the year We have only one
word of caution Don't write down the Paios
as "rotting" in the China Seas she haPPeh'
| to be an iron steamboat.
Mr.. Powderly declares that the future of the
workingmen depends on association LXactiy-
with whom and what they associate
No wonder the latest Panama Canal loan was
failure No more damning influence could have
been used against it than the report on the state
| Of the enterprise which was intended to promote
| its success This report appeared in an extra
nun. her Of the Bulletin Canal du Interoceanique,"
and was prepared ~ II. dc Lcsseps himself. It's d.
rect statements and the unavoidable deductions
TO be drawn from them present n record of reck-
lessncss and infatuation scarcely TO be paraIeled
III, loans of the company in 1882, 1883 ana
! 1884 netted SS2 1876, DAP. That was the amount
actually received But as these loans were made
at a heavy discount the Indebtedness Of the COM
pany on them came TO sl25,064,70O. Down TO
June. 1856 the point reached by this report, the
loans received amounted TO sl54,500,OS2, and the
Indebtedness assumed 10 197,0s6,s2O. Out OF
these enormous sums only about s29oOO'oOo mas
been spent for actual canal cutting and some S2o,-
OOO.O 900 for plant and stores. There remains
then the SUM Of sos. 100000 and more to be ac
counted for 1t went for financing for interest
and sinking fund, some Of it; for more question
allie purposes more Of it; for "sundrles" more
| than $4,000 10000; and for office expenses IN
Paris not less than So, 100000 year. And now
NJ de Lesscps, after all this proigate cXpendl-
| ture. for the first time admits that there may be
in the mountainous backbone OF the lsthmuS not
VET pierccd tremendous obstacles which no human
effort can give assurance against After THIS
the next issue Of "The Bulletin" will be awaited
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collapse Of the whole undertaking, it could
have no better introduction than the report NJ
de Losseps has just made
Assistant District Attorney Fitzgerald says that
the District-Attorney's Office always knows where
TO find cx-Alderman McCabe when 1t wants him.
Chicago knows just where to find McGar lie. But
the cx-waricn does not seem to come on call
xf,,N oil Cpo-1
canem' Admiral Luce when pressed by news
paper correspondent to reply to Secretary WHIT
ncy's contemptuous rebul<c is reported 70 have
| quoted from King Lear this vigorous line
Behold the great image Of authority; dog 5
obeyed in Office II is 10 be hoped that this
Renaissance Of Shakespeare was furnished by the
correspondent rather than the Admiral. III the
commander of the American squadron had seen
fit TO refer to his official superior as the guided
fgurchead Of the Navy there would have been
nothing to complain Of; but he should have
made full stop after great image of authority"
1t is permissible for one jolly Admiral to call
another Jolly Admiral IAN old scadog"; but
naval etiquette and the proprietics OF the service
should exempt the Secretary of the Navy from
too elusive terms Of cndearment
General Neal Dow has broken loose again This
party strong enough in 1892 TO break up the Re
publican party. 1t is remarkable how earnestly
the Third Party leaders hope for the collapse OF
the only party that has secured the passage of q
prohibitory law in this country. But the hope
of the Third Party leaders will be SO long de
ferrcd as TO make them hcartsiclI.
There is more hope Of Chicago "boodler'
tan OF the article here. When sentenced thu
Chicago hang their heads in shame Here
they eye the Judge and look injured. But Tho
good big size of the sentence here recOncile'
the public to this behavior.
reporter OF The Syracuse Standard has dis
covered a professor of repairing in that city VIII
proudly asserts in the fun confidence of hi
genius that there is nothing which he canno
repair. Indeed he went &c the length of cor
daily inviting the reporter to stick him If Ia
could at any kind of repairing" Evidently herr
is IA chance for Governor Hin. Let him send vi
to Syracuse his badly damaged equation
and If this professor can fix
up so that in spite of the Veddcr bill veto i
will pass muster with the people. III the Governo
takes our advice how quick that professor vii
take tho back tracItl